US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and I'm not sure how much it's been hit, is camps for people that are involved in other sports. Why not put on camps for high school kids that are cross-country runners, because those are the some of the best cyclists.

I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.'

I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.

If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.